Now all packaged together for the very first time, this collection of Fudge books will please lifelong fans and entice a whole new generation of Blume readers.

    The Outsiders: Growing up in a rough city surrounded by violence, Ponyboy and his friends learn what it means to defend your turf and to stand up for each other. That Was Then, This Is Now: Mark and Bryon are practically brothers-they have no family to speak of-but they eventually come to a point in their lives where they have difficult choices to make; choices that might separate them forever.

    In fact, that first small indication of something wrong escapes the whole family. Three weeks later though there can be no escape. Sarah's mother has been diagnosed with incurable cancer and the love this family shares becomes a desperate clinging. But Sarah's mother has a gift. A gift for reaffirming life. And even as she leaves that gift, another one, a letter, will help bring Sarah through the most painful and trying time she has ever had.One of the most honest portraits of death, courage, and, most especially, love can now be shared again with a new generation of children."Hermes, author of this . . . uncompromisingly candid story makes the reader aware of life's priceless moments and the need for courage."-Publishers Weekly "A vivid, painful believability." -The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "A sensitive, touching account." -Instructor Magazine "This book is by far the best liked book in my reading class. We have read this book in my fifth grade class for the last eight years. The book gives us an opportunity to discuss many issues confronted by young kids while growing up. It also provides an opportunity to discuss death and the loss of a loved one. The students and I have had many heart wrenching talks while reading this book. Many tears have been shed by my students while reading and discussing this book. This is my all time favorite book to read in class." -Online review

    In collaboration with his late wife, Janet, he has published many enduring titles, among them Each Peach Pear Plum, Peepo!, Burglar Bill and The Jolly Postman. In addition he has written novels, collections of stories, sets of easy-readers and joke books.

    There, on a quaint cobblestone block of cheerful houses, live seven invisible - except to August - children from another time. Before he knows it, August and his fantastic new friends are off on the adventure of a lifetime!

    and waitingAt twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said—nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving—anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy hair, when she arrived at her new home. "It was a mistake to bring her here," said Maggie's great-aunts, whose huge stone house looked like another boarding school—or a prison. But they took her in anyway. After all, aside from Uncle Morris, they were Maggie's only living relatives.But from behind the closet door in the great and gloomy house, Maggie hears the faint whisperings, the beckoning voices. And in the forbidding house of her ancestors, Maggie finds magic ... the kind that lets her, for the first time, love and be loved.

    Dog resists going to his first day of nursery school, but he finds some of the things there comfortingly familiar.

    A collection of twenty of the Brothers Grimm's best-loved tales, including: Little Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, The Two Brothers, Allerleirauh, The Goose Girl, Little Red Cap, The Bremen Town Musicians, Snow White and Rose Red, Fundevogel, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, The Fisherman and His Wife, The Valiant Little Tailor, Little Briar Rose, Thumbling, The Golden Bird, Cinderella, The Six Swans, The Girl Without Hands, Fischer’s Bird.

    The people, animals, strawberries, and cream of Rumbletown are given a bumpy ride to the county fair.

    Rachel Deering's dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer has to be put on hold when she finds out that she has diabetes, but the lessons she learns in managing her disease help her take control of her life.

    Darkness and destruction lie ahead unless the Galkians rescue their savior, who, according to ancient myths, is trapped somewhere behind seven locked gates. Prince Kerish-lo-Taan, the Emperor's favorite son, makes a big decision: to leave the safety of Galkis and take his half-brother Forollkin on a dangerous quest for the legendary savior. First, Kerish and Forollkin must find the Seven Sorcerers who guard the keys to the gates. Can Kerish's Godborn powers help him avoid peril, and capture the golden keys?

    Lamia and her family are caught up in the fighting, with tragic consequences. Lamia struggles with the hatred that threatens to destroy her, until she grasps that forgiveness and love are the most important things. Nothing else matters.

    

    A reissue, in a larger format, of the first picture book by Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Smalls.

    GINN READING PROGRAM LEVEL 5

    On a Missouri farm in the midst of the Depression, eleven-year-old Maureen has a bit of good luck when she finds a special wild apple tree.

    Raggedy Ann and Andy and the camel with the wrinkled kneesRaggedy Ann's wishing pebbleRaggedy Ann and the paper dragon

    Little Musuko's nightingale friend loses his home when his lovely plum tree is chosen to replace a dead one in the emperor's perfect garden.

    A little boy explains his mother's pregnancy, the birth of the baby, the care that its needs, and his feelings about his new brother.

    Twenty familiar selections from Mother Goose.

    Illustrated with the author's woodcuts.

    On a long journey to find the kingdom of Iskany and become a sorceress, a resourceful girl shares adventures and magic with a talking raven and a performing pig.

    Not only is the vampire very tiny, he is also a vegetarian with dreams of starring in horror films... Vlad persuades Judy and Paul to smuggle him back to London but the children decide to keep him a secret in case the vampire gets put in a museum or the zoo. Still a vampire left on his own all day can get terribly bored and find all kinds of mischief to pass the time. A very funny book that has stood the test of time and an entertaining look at the problems facing an outsider.

    First he falls for Raisin, then for Millie, Rosa, Lola - and then Raisin again. Can Fox handle this much love?

    In these three fairy tales inspired by Puerto Rican legends, a coqui must outsmart all the bigger animals; a faithful dog haunts the beaches, waiting for its drowned master to return from the sea; and a young boy is miraculously saved from death.

    No one knows for sure where Prelutsky meets these people, but young readers everywhere are delighted that he does.

    

    Mike and his dog Harry, the Airedale with ESP, are shocked to discover that the new umpire for Mike's baseball games can hear their mental conversations.

    While riding a cable car in the Alps, Miss Mallard witnesses a robbery at the retreat of the famed Madame Merganser.

    But a royal marriage doesn't end this Cinderella's problems... Four other Vietnamese folktales are included.

    Originally published in 1910.

    Zany illustrations add to the fun and provide clues to the solutions. And the newly designed full-color cover makes the package even more appealing. So dig in--and see why you should play with your words (not with your food)!

    Includes stories, poems, and instructions for Christmas projects and activities involving the citizens of Sesame Street.

    Hazel the mouse goes to visit her mother on Mother's Day, but finds she has gone to visit her mother.

    Burdened with the responsibilities of being the oldest child in a large, poor family, she lies awake nights staring at the stars but seeing no way to succeed. She can't do her homework because of noise from her family and the television set that is always on in the main room of their small house. Her science fair project has just been ruined by Nathaniel and Leroy's careless horsing around. She doesn't know what to do.For solace she reaches for a treasured book of poems and becomes inspired to imitate Meg in her favorite poem: from now on she will live "as she do please". She will run away. This haunting and sensitively written story of a girl's successful search for independence will resonate with many girls of a similar age.

    During a visit to the home of her dying grandmother in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lee happens on a famous lost treasure which may prove unlucky for herself as well as for others.